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The Polo/Lauren Company v OHIM T-265/1318 September 2014Jonathan Hill recently acted for the Polo/Lauren Company, LP, the owner of the well known Ralph Lauren “Polo” brand, the applicant in proceedings before the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union challenging OHIM’s rejection of its opposition to the registration of a logo featuring a player of bicycle polo wielding […]
Thomas Pink Ltd v Victoria’s Secret UK Ltd31 July 2014Charlotte May QC and Jaani Riordan recently acted for the successful claimant in Thomas Pink Ltd v Victoria’s Secret UK Ltd [2014] EWHC 2631 (Ch). The Claimant was the well-known English clothing retailer, Thomas Pink, which owned UK and Community trade marks for logos featuring the mark “PINK”. Thomas Pink complained about a line of […]
Aga Medical Corporation v Occlutech (UK) Limited [2014] EWHC 2506 (Pat)22 July 2014Richard Meade QCappeared as lead counsel for AGA Medical Corporation, the Claimant and PT20 Defendant, against Andrew Lykiardopoulos QC who acted as lead counsel for Occlutech (UK) Limited, the Defendant and PT20 Claimant. This was an infringement action relating to a patent concerning a medical device for occluding defects in the atrial septum of the […]
A Khan Design Limited v Stephen Horsley & Another [2014] EWHC 3019 (IPEC)21 July 2014Lindsay Lane appeared on behalf of Stephen Horsley in an application to strike out claims for damages and costs made by A Khan Design Limited following a design right trial. Applying the principles in Denton v White, Mr Baldwin QC, struck out the Claimant’s claims for costs and damages on the ground of its failure […]
Eli Lilly v Human Genome Sciences [2014] EWHC 240418 July 2014Michael Tappin QC again acted for HGS in this latest episode of its long-running battle with Eli Lilly. Lilly had challenged the validity of HGS’s patent but failed in the Supreme Court and (on the some outstanding issues) in the Court of Appeal. Lilly then sought a declaration that any SPC granted to HGS based […]
Lilley v Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc & Anor [2014] EWHC 2364 (Ch)16 July 2014Lindsay Lane  appeared for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), a defendant in one of a number of actions brought by Victor Lilley, a litigant in person. Mr Lilley alleged copyright infringement in relation to articles originally published in journals in the late 1990s on the ground that they had been placed on the internet […]
Rovi Solutions Corporation & Anor v Virgin Media Ltd & Ors [2014] EWHC 2301 (Pat)14 July 2014James Abrahams and Isabel Jamal recently appeared for the Claimants, Rovi Solutions Corporation and United Video Properties Inc., against James Mellor QC and Andrew Lykiardopoulos QC acting for the Defendants, Virgin Media Limited and others. The proceedings related to a European Patent, owned by the Claimant, for live and non-live Video on Demand services. Mr […]
PRCA v. Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd Case C-360/135 June 2014Andrew Lykiardopoulos QC recently acted for the PRCA in the Supreme Court and reference to the Court of Justice. The case raised the important question of whether copies made on a user’s computer (on screen or in the internet cache) when browsing websites could constitute an infringement of copyright. The Court held that they cannot. […]
Shanks v Unilever [2014] EWHC 1647 (Pat)23 May 2014In Shanks v Unilever [2014] EWHC 1647 (Pat) , Arnold J has dismissed Prof Shanks’ appeal against the IPO’s rejection of his long-running multi-million pound claim for inventor’s compensation against his former employer, Unilever, in respect of patents which he claimed to be of ‘outstanding benefit’ to Unilever. The patents were in for the so-called electrochemical capillary […]
Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) v Richter Gedeon Vegyeszeti Gyar RT [2014] EWHC 1666 (Pat)22 May 2014Lindsay Lane  recently appeared as part of Richter Gedeon Vegyeszeti Gyar RT’s legal team defending an invalidity and revocation claim brought by Generics UK Limited. The patent concerned a dosage regimen for use of levonorgestrel as a method of emergency contraception. The claim was brought on the grounds of obviousness and insufficiency. Sales J found […]